The UnitedHealthcare Accelerator announced this year’s cohort of 10 digital health startups.
The fifth year of the program launched on Aug. 2 and will last four months. In its previous rounds, the program has worked with a total of 50 companies aimed at “solving critical health care challenges,” according to a news release.
Entrepreneurs will work closely with UHC executives and subject-matter experts from across the health care industry. UnitedHealthcare is a unit of UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH).
“Every year we are invigorated by the opportunity to collaborate with a new group of bold innovators,” Clayton Burke, UHC’s senior director of innovation, said the release. “This year’s application process was our most competitive yet – a testament to the impact of this program and the valuable role our mentors and leaders from across UnitedHealth Group perform.”
The accelerator was run by Boulder, Colo.-based Techstars until 2021.
The 2023 class of startups represent a wide range of technologies from AI-powered care management to addressing health inequities. Ninety percent of the companies in this year’s cohort were founded by women and/or people of color. None of the companies are local.
This year’s companies include:
- Advocatia, from Lake Bluff, Ill., which empowers health care organizations to engage and enroll customers into benefits programs that reduce costs and improve health outcomes.
- Affect Therapeutics, from McLean, Va., which is a national, tech-enabled healthcare provider that offers digital substance-use disorder treatment.
- Budgie Health, from New York City, which guides employees to the right health plan choice for them, leveraging real-time claims and financial analytics.
- Isaac Health, from New York City, which is a scalable platform for population brain health and dementia management.
- Laguna Health, from New York City, which is an AI-powered care management platform that identifies complex members’ individual life barriers and intervenes automatically.
- Marti Health, from Atlanta, which aims to eliminate health disparities in special needs populations beginning with sickle cell disease.
- Mighty Health, from Los Angeles, which is an all-in-one chronic disease and weight management program for adults 50 and older.
- Mirza, from New York City, which works with employers to remove childcare obstacles for working parents by maximizing available government funds.
- Spark, from New York City, which is a tech-enabled Medicare brokerage that partners with local independent agents to advise Medicare benificiaries on health care decisions.
- StationMD, from Maplewood, N.J., a telehealth company dedicated to serving individuals with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities.
